Download or read book The China Threat written by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that President Eisenhower's hostile rhetoric toward China actually masked a more nuanced policy toward a nation that he deemed too important to shun, but ultimately the state of the world prevented him from pursuing some of his more lenient strategies.